BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 108 hits. Analysis detected 466 faulty-reasoning hits from 364 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44.2% and a BS Rank of 50% (13,387 of 26,708 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 50.10% of the article peer group.

ICE ambushing travelers at San Francisco International Airport 
A recent ICE arrest at SFO is just the tip of the iceberg for ramped-up enforcement. 
World's first motel could become older folks home on Central Coast 
The historic motel is smack in the middle of the drive from San Francisco to LA. 
Dolly Parton once ran a restaurant in Hawaii. 
It was a disaster. 
Dockside Plantation only lasted a little over a year. 
Crystal Cove's beloved Beachcomber restaurant sits in a cottage 'time forgot' 
A piece of California coastal history is the home of a cherished restaurant. 
Multiple-car crash, brush fire spur standstill on Highway 101 in North Bay 
A driver crashed into a power pole, causing an outage that affected half of Novato. 
At California's historic El Adobe, eat Nixon's favorite dinner in a jail cell 
It has legends of bandits and ghosts, and a very real presidential legacy. 
San Francisco suing to stop allegedly 'brazen hotel booking scam' 
One wrong click on a misleading URL has tricked travelers in California for years. 
Authorities ID 32-year-old man who drowned in Lake Tahoe 
The man was pronounced deceased at Sand Harbor State Park. 
Lakefront Tahoe City landmark up for foreclosure auction 
"That building has taken all those big winters. 
It's a good one." 
San Diego closed 13 public restrooms. 
One official is fighting to reopen them. 
The closures were part of the city's attempt to reduce the $118 million budget deficit. 
Disneyland's inexpensive new ticket sold out within days. 
Was it worth it? 
A few minutes before midnight, disaster has struck at the Happiest Place on Earth. 
The biggest name in Vegas makes a $200M bet on Lake Tahoe 
With Vegas stumbling, Caesars Republic brings the glamour back to Lake Tahoe. 
6 teens now arrested on suspicion of attacking Calif. family at resort on Maui 
The family alleges a group of young people carried out the attack. 
SFO, LAX fight for Pacific flights to the Philippines 
Delta and United ramp up LAX vs. 
SFO's battle for transpacific passengers. 
Bay Area neighbors hated airport noise. 
Then came the billionaires. 
The Bohemian Grove, a Bay Area party for billionaires, briefly quieted the airport. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 7.1%SFGate: 1.5%Confirmation Bias7.1%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 10.2%SFGate: 2.7%Availability Heuristic10.2%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 3.6%SFGate: 5.4%Framing Effect3.6%This article: 1.6%SFGate: 0.4%Loss Aversion1.6%This article: 3.3%SFGate: 0.5%Status Quo Bias3.3%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 1.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 3.8%SFGate: 2.4%Pessimism Bias3.8%This article: 29.7%SFGate: 11.4%Negativity Bias29.7%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 4.1%SFGate: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error4.1%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 1.6%SFGate: 0.4%In-Group Bias1.6%This article: 1.6%SFGate: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias1.6%This article: 4.7%SFGate: 1.8%Halo Effect4.7%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 4.4%SFGate: 0.8%Recency Bias4.4%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 1.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 3.3%SFGate: 0.6%False Dilemma3.3%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 3.8%SFGate: 4.0%Hasty Generalization3.8%This article: 1.1%SFGate: 0.3%Red Herring1.1%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 13.7%SFGate: 3.4%Appeal to Emotion13.7%This article: 2.7%SFGate: 0.2%Begging the Question2.7%This article: 9.1%SFGate: 1.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)9.1%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.8%SFGate: 1.5%Anecdotal5.8%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 7.7%SFGate: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)7.7%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 5.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 2.7%SFGate: 10.0%Biased Writer Voice2.7%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%SFGate: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 2.2%SFGate: 0.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…2.2%

364 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers5.5%attributed speech344writer words
Selected voice

Bohemian Grove

100%flagged-word coverage
13 attributed words65% of attributed speech69% writer coverage
0%2.5%5.0%Biased Writer Voice-2.9 ptsWriter: 2.9%Bohemian Grove: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -2.3 ptsWriter: 2.3%Bohemian Grove: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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